CAPE TOWN, South Africa – P.W. Botha, the apartheid-era president who led South Africa through its worst racial violence and deepest international isolation, died Tuesday. He was 90. Botha died at his ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Former South African President P.W. Botha, the defiant face of white rule at the height of the anti-apartheid struggle, died at his home on Tuesday aged 90. Widely known as ...

P.W. Botha, who served as South Africa's last hard-line white president, has died at 90. Nicknamed "The Big Crocodile" for his belligerence and temper, Botha was the face of racist South Africa at the ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African flags flew at half-mast on Thursday in a tribute to hardline apartheid leader P.W. Botha who died on Tuesday, aged 90. Botha oversaw one of the most brutal ...

President Thabo Mbeki's decision to fly the flag of the new South Africa at half mast on Thursday to mark the passing of PW Botha has been hailed as extra-ordinarily gracious - and damned as "a slap ...

- Go to Inside IOL to express your feelings about the death of PW Botha. Former president PW Botha worked hard at building a bad reputation. His final effort was his refusal to appear before the Truth ...

(Reuters) - Former President P.W. Botha, the last of South Africa's hardline white rulers, was buried on Wednesday in the southern coastal city of George following a funeral attended by President ...

Tony Cox reports on the death of former South African President P.W. Botha. Botha died at age 90 at his home on the southern cape coast of South Africa Tuesday night. And now we have a death to report ...

P.W. Botha, the unapologetic leader of apartheid-era South Africa who led his country into deepening racial crisis as head of state from 1978 to 1989, died Tuesday at his home in Wilderness, a ...

(Reuters) - P.W. Botha, the face of white South Africa as president at the height of the anti-apartheid struggle, died at his home on Tuesday aged 90. The following are key facts about Pieter Willem ...